Software Engineering Manager

Job Title: Software Engineering Manager II 

Location: Remote

• This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member.

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Development: Develops solutions using standards and best practices of the applications language. Writes code that implements the design that is testable, extensible, efficient and maintainable.
• Impact Analysis: Understand the rationale behind and how changes impact the enterprise and/or applications and across the technical ecosystem.
• Solution Design: Ability to translate high level requirements to create and implement designs that meet the needs of the customer, are technically sound, maintainable and cost effective. Ability to identify missing or ambiguous requirements. Ability to design at both high and low levels of abstraction, understand complex requirements and translate into understandable solutions. Ability to accurately estimate based on requirements.
• Technical Domain: Have an understanding of the technical domain, including the application architecture, design and data of the application they support and systems to which it interfaces.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years’ experience leading engineering teams.
• Proven experience in technical leadership, capable of providing mentorship, cross-functional project execution, setting and executing on technical vision and strategy
• Extensive experience implementing Agile and DevOps practices including but not limited to test driven, incremental releases, continuous integration, and deployment pipeline automation.
• Experience in microservices design strategies and implementation including migration planning, service granularity, interservice communication, traceability, orchestration, and failure isolation
• Experience with Cloud migrations and working in a mixed on-prem / cloud environment (container orchestration, security, serverless)

Preferred Experience:

• 4 years’ experience of leading initiatives in a Java ecosystem
• Track record of identifying opportunities to improve outcomes via new tools and approaches, evaluating and measuring candidate solutions, and successfully advocating for their adoption
• Experience applying appropriate levels of transactional and race condition-resilient approaches, including database locking, distributed transactions (XA), SAGA pattern
• Ability to describe and design decoupled system transaction models that are resilient to upstream and downstream outages with appropriate recovery models
• Experience implementing and operationalizing rules engines

Knowledge and Skills:

• Thought leader with deep technical expertise with the proven ability to influence and partner with business to innovate and drive outcomes
• Ability to communicate complex technical information (both verbal and written) to all levels, including senior leadership
• Ability to solve problems at the source by offering simple, working solutions.
• Anticipates the impact of a change or project across multiple systems.
• Responds promptly and effectively to resolve incidents, tasks, and projects.
• Demonstrated ability and motivation to teach others
• Ability to gain trust of others and builds solid relationships across and vertically throughout the organization
• Effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Vital Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action employer. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits promotions, training, termination or any other condition of employment or career development.

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, veteran status, disability status or any other legally protected status.